Not Another Shucking Burger

I was in town for various reasons, so decided to have lunch in the CBD and try another burger. I consulted my Burger Wellington shortlist on the WOAP site and settled on The Hangar's Not Another Shucking Burger.

What’s that name all about? Well, what do you shuck? Oysters, of course! This is, in fact, an oyster burger. Who’da thought such a thing was possible?

It’s described on the WOAP website like this:

Fried oysters, pickles, slaw, pickled carrots and a housemade chilli, dill and yoghurt sauce in a brioche bun, with handcut paprika fries. And it looks like this:

 I opened it up to count the oysters inside…there are five: 

There’s no Garage Project beer match as The Hangar does not have an alcohol licence, so instead I had a ginger beer with it.

How did it taste? Looking at the description, you can see there’s a lot of strong flavours there. And looking at the picture, you can see that those oysters have been deeply fried. All of which led to…disappointment. It could have been deep-fried anything in those crunchy morsels – the oyster was completely overpowered by the strong flavours of the sauce, slaw, and pickles. If you’re going to fry oysters (and some people like them that way), you need a light batter, and you don’t want to lose the flavour of the oyster. This one, I’m afraid, failed in the execution. Still, the paprika fries were nice. I scored this a low 4/10.